A Perth-based Tory MSP has warned of border controls if Scotland breaks away from the rest of the UK in the wake of last week’s Brexit vote.

Alexander Stewart, a well known councillor in the Fair City and now a Mid Scotland and Fife parliamentarian, backed Leave and said he is “delighted” with the result.

He also insisted the prospect of an independent Scotland was less attractive as a result of the controversial ballot.

“I am delighted by the brave decision of the people of the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union,” Mr Stewart said.

“While I recognise that the majority of people both here in Perth and Kinross and in Scotland as a whole voted to remain in the bloc, the member state is the United Kingdom and this was a decision for we in the United Kingdom to take as a whole with each person within the country having an equal say.”